NIIT Limited informed that Mr. Pankaj Prabhakar Jathar has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer and shall take charge of his office with effect from July 1, 2024 in terms of the provision of Section 203 of the Companies Act, 2013 (read with the applicable rules framed thereunder) and SEBI (Listing Obligations & Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015. Pankaj Jathar is a seasoned leader who has the unique experience in training industry as well as building technology solutions, marketing & sales, business development, governance, and growing businesses to scale in the ecommerce world. With over 25 years of experience in leading global corporations through transformational change, he is also an e-commerce expert who has successfully set up and led the growth of the e- com platform of Etsy in India.

He entered the e-commerce space at Amazon India as part of the launch team in 2011, created the sports category and grew business of three major categories. Later from 2017 at Cloudtail India, he created a high-performance business team and drove a significant growth over three years; became CEO of Prione [Amazon JV] in 2020 and built an efficient and effective sales and services organization. After completing his B.E in Pune University and MBA at IIMC in 1998, his first engagement was in NIIT Limited, strategizing the now globally known 'Hole-in-the-wall' learning system.

His early career included 4 years of business development in training industry with Tata Interactive Systems in London. Later, as a solution architect in Accenture, he experienced and built IT outsourcing solutions in the banking and finance sector for five years.